Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years - A Boy's Tale

"Drukier never presents himself as a hero. He has no time for introspection during the war; the daily search for food is what occupies his thoughts, and the ingenuity he displays in getting an extra portion … is what carries much of the narrative forward. His final moments with his mother and sister, and his father (with whom he was in touch until the elder Drukier’s death from starvation) are numbingly, achingly beautiful. Drukier does not write sentimentally about these things – he simply recounts them, and the effect is almost unbearable."

Jason Sherman, Quill and Quire

"Seldom have I read a manuscript that has moved me like Manny Drukier’s Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years - A Boy’s Tale."

John Copley, Edmonton Jewish News

"This account by a successful publisher and businessman should be widely read. It is by a survivor of rare sensitivity who assures us as did Walt Whitman in a different context, "I know, I suffered, I was there.""

Bernard Baskin, Canadian Jewish News

"He has two stories to tell and does so remarkably well in this book of memoirs. Masterfully, he moves the narrative from the past to the present and back again, incorporating the sad and horrific recollections of the war years with those of his (and his wife Freda’s) travels through Poland in the fall of 1991."

Allan Levine, Winnipeg Free Press

‘Drukier is sustained by the memory of sustenance, and his ability to feel it so intensely is charming. In fact, the intelligent and restrained way in which he shares his tale gives us a portrait of the survivor as a truly admirable person. He is frank about his suffering without being maudlin, intelligent in his analysis of the social forces at play in Europe, generous with the details that brings his world to life. The superior abilities that enabled him to survive are now put to the task of testimony, and serve him and the reader well.’

Robin Roger, Books in Canada

"Of course pleasure is not exactly the word one is looking for when reading the exact descriptions of terrible suffering and nearly incomprehensible adventures during wartime. But by writing with an astonishing detachment which looks like objectivity Drukier achieves an excellent result. Readers understand the way he lived and live, as it were, with him."

Sem Dresden, author of Persecution, Extermination, Literature